The force of positive motivation

Last week a very important event took place. It was seen on a lot of media and the message this event broadcasted was clear. We want change!

The event I am talking about is the “March of our lives” event which took place around the USA and if I am correct in some other countries as well. While I knew this event was being planned I didn’t stay up to date with it’s progress and seeing the pictures now that it happened is pretty incredible. It’s an amazing demonstration of how positive motivation can have a large impact.

Let me go into a bit more details on what I mean. Was the event that happened that motivated this march good? Of course not, it was a terrible shooting that is something those students will never forget but, now that it happened these students are using positive motivation towards creating some change. They are working on a drive not only to try and stop another event like this from happening again but to create a better tomorrow where there is some better gun control.

I love this example of positive motivation. It shows how age is not a factor when trying to create positive change. Anyone can do it with enough drive and motivation, everyone can have an impact if they commit to it.

I was watching an interview with some of these students on the Ellen Degeneres show and they said something that stuck. Ellen asked them “were you always activists?” and they answered something along the lines of “I still don’t think I see myself as an activist, all I knew is that I didn’t want something like this to happen again.”

And that is a key message in positive motivation. It’s not about having that activist image and the publicity it’s about helping others and creating some positive change that’s needed in the world.

So to wrap up this post I will put some image from the “March for our Lives” and I hope this will inspire whoever is reading this to start creating some positive change it can be as small as helping someone pick up something that they dropped or you can start working towards contributing to a movement like the “March for our Lives” movement. Either way, do something everyday that helps others.

Image taken here:http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/where-march-for-our-lives-protests-are-happening-across-canada/